The Summer Solstice Jazz Festival will hit downtown East Lansing from June 18-20. The festival is a joint production by the city of East Lansing, Wharton Center and the MSU College of Music. The two headliners are Somi, a New York-based singer/songwriter and Joe Lovano, an internationally-known jazz performer.
Dirty Feat is the first urban adventure race in Lansing and East Lansing. The race took more than 80 teams of two people each through downtown East Lansing, along the Red Cedar River, across the MSU campus and throughout the city of Lansing in a race of more than 30 miles.
The Office for International Students and Scholars, or OISS, hosts a broadcast of the World Cup every four years as a way for international students to get together and cheer for their favorite teams. After success in 2006, OISS faculty decided to place a projection screen in the Crossroads Food Court to allow students from around the world to watch the World Cup action, which will continue until July 11.
Professors and students from across the country gathered Sunday evening at the International Center for a welcoming reception to the Summer Cooperative African Language Institute, or SCALI, which is being hosted by MSU this year. The SCALI program is an eight-week educational language course that combines class time with extracurricular activities, which aim to immerse the student in the language and culture of an African area, director of the MSU African Students Center James Pritchett said.
The MSU Department of Entomology’s Bug House is hosting Bug Camp for Kids from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 26 at 147 Natural Science Building. The program for six to 11-year-olds will feature numerous games, hands on activities, bug collecting and arts and crafts.
The Capital Area Safe Kids Coalition and the MSU, East Lansing and Meridian Township police departments will host a free car seat check from 4-7 p.m. Friday in Lot 89, on the corner of Farm Lane and Mt. Hope Road. By appointment, people can bring their child in his or her car seat, and a certified child passenger safety technician will inspect the seat and its installation within the car.
With Global Positioning Systems, or GPS, in hand, groups of East Lansing residents searched the Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden at MSU on Saturday for coordinates to win an annual summer geocaching competition. The summer Garden Geocache Event, hosted by the Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden, sent teams of cache enthusiasts to race to several locations around the garden, with prizes hidden at each place. Created in 2000, geocaching is a way of navigating to various areas with predetermined points using a GPS.
Through financing from two Lansing-area organizations and other donors, the Greater Lansing Food Bank purchased a new Ford F-350 Super Duty truck to support the food bank’s food movers program.
After a long career in TV directing for shows for the Public Broadcasting Service and national documentaries, Alberto Moreno in previous years had been nominated for several Michigan Emmy Awards, but had yet to win — until he joined the MSUToday Show team.
Students and professors are working to find trash deposits near Beaumont Tower this week in what they said could be the backyard of College Hall, the first hall ever built at MSU. The students are part of the Campus Archaeology Summer Field School, a five-week class designed by the MSU Department of Anthropology and the Campus Archaeology Program, which has excavated several areas on campus to find remnants of historic landmarks.
MSU’s College of Human Medicine and Kettering University signed an agreement Tuesday that will reserve spots in the college for eligible Kettering premedical students.Kettering juniors who meet the requirements for the College of Human Medicine will complete their senior year at Kettering before being enrolled in the College of Human Medicine.
International students attended the MSU Office for International Students and Scholars, or OISS, Ice Cream Social on Wednesday at the International Center. The social is an informal event attempting to create a bridge of communication between international students and professors.
A Wrongful Imprisonment Forum will take place 7-9 p.m June 21 at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lansing, 855 Grove St. The forum will educate the community on the wrongful imprisonment affecting thousands of U.S. citizens every year.
With vocalists and Mexican dancers, the Michigan Women’s Historical Center & Hall of Fame’s annual Picnic on the Lawn was a combination of Mexican culture and entertainment. Hosted Wednesday night at the Michigan Women’s Historical Center & Hall of Fame, 213 W. Main St., in Lansing, the picnic acted as a social gathering and fundraiser for the center, which honors the achievements of women in the Lansing area.
About 30 years ago, Eunice Foster saw the low number of minority students in agriculture and natural resource programs, and recognized the necessity of a supporting community. In 1982, Foster, an associate dean in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, or CANR, and director of the MSU Institute of Agricultural Technology, became one of the main founders of the MSU student group Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences, or MANRRS, which was the first of its kind and has been expanded nationally.
The Greater Lansing Food Bank will take time to publicly thank two local organizations for their funding assistance toward the food bank at 1 p.m. Thursday at Kellogg Center. The Capital Region Community Foundation and the Rotary Club of Lansing Foundation will be recognized for their combined purchase of a new vehicle for the food bank’s Food Movers Program.
The Stanley S. Levandowski Sr. Memorial Zoo Mural, part of Potter Park Zoo’s 90th Birthday Celebration, will be unveiled at 5 p.m. Thursday in the zoo’s Farmyard Edventure area. The mural will incorporate artwork from 10 designs that were selected from more than 150 entries. The piece depicts the relationship between people and agricultural animals around the world.
Coming off of a victory at a national debate competition, two MSU Honors College debaters are in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to argue nuclear weapons policy against one of the best debate teams in the country. Winning the 2010 National Debate Tournament in March, Carly Wunderlich, a spring 2010 alumna, and international relations senior Eric Lanning are taking part in the Center for Strategic and International Studies public debate against Emory University, which was ranked No. 1 before the national tournament.
A sculpture entitled “The Funambulist” installed last Thursday on the north lawn of Snyder and Phillips halls has drawn mixed feelings from students about its appearance and placement, although officials said the sculpture will remain in place. As of Wednesday, more than 200 people have joined a Facebook pages entitled “Petition to Move the Modern Art Sculpture Behind the MSU Gallery.” The group is an attempt to voice student concerns about how the piece clashes with campus scenery, said theater sophomore Kate Busselle, who created the group.
The treeline around Demonstration Field will undergo some changes next week, as several dying trees will be removed and replaced with a more disease-resistant species of tree, MSU officials said. Twenty-three new trees will be planted after MSU Landscape Services removes 11 dying Norway Maple trees.